Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.